Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-07-21
A FIENDISH CRIME.
Brutal Murder of Joseph c. Kennedy
a Prominent Citizen of
Washington.
The Act Committed by John Daily a
Worthless Fellow With a
Butcher Knife.
A Brutal Murder.

A Brutal Murder.
| WASHINGTON, July 15-The most SEN
sational murder in Was hipgton since tho
assassination of President Garfield was
committed this evening opposite the
northeastern end of the treasury build
| ing. Joseph G. Kennedy, attorney and
real estate agent, one of the oldest resi-
dents in Washington and a personal ac-
quaintance of many of the most prom
inent people at the national capital, was
murdered in cold blood, apparently with
out provocation by John Daily, white
! labOrer. A few minutes before o'clock,
Kennedy left his Office and crossed the
street, where he mailed several letters
and started to take a car. When within
1 few feet of the car, Daily, who had been
! lettering around the corner several hours,
walked up behind him, and drawing a
! large, keen bladed knife, similar to those
used by butchers for killing hogs, ran it
into Kennedy's right side, near the abdo-
men, with
VICIOUS LUNGE,
and then gave il jerk sidewise. A large
crowd was on the corner at the time,
but all were so horror stricken for a mo-
ment that no one moved. Kennedy fell
to the ground after giving a cry of ''mur
der" groaned deeply, and pointed to the
murderer who made no attem pit to escape.
| The knife dropped out of Kennedy's side
as physician came up. Waterman
seized Dolly, who stood looking on, APP
parentiy the most unconcerned and self
possessed man il the crowd. Kennedy ex
pired in five minutes. His body was re
moved TO the police station. Excitement
rose rapidly, and the crowd grew bolster
OPS, threatening to hang the murderer.
Daily paid but little attention and refused
TO say why he committed the crime.
Once, when provoked by the crowo, he
turned squarely round and said: Yes, |
killed him, d-m himw He is a man of
about so years of ags, and apparently a
workingman. At the station house he
told
RAMBLING, INCOHERENF STORY.
about the affair, of which the general pur-
port was that Kennedy had wronged his
father years ago-secured property worth
81 600 for $500 and refused to make
restitution. The murdered man was about
10 years old, of an old Maryland family,
and one of the most respected citizens in
Washington. He was a grandson of
EllicOtt, who, at the request of President
Washington, surveyed the ten miles
| square incorporated AS the District of
Columbia. he was prominent politician
ia earlier days, and an ardent adherent of
the old whig party. At one time he edited
The Franklin pa, Intelligencer. He was
an intimate friend of eI Senator Conklin,
Atty. Gen. Garland, w. w. Corcoran, and
large number of other people. He
leaves an unmarried daug hter, SaClie Ken
needy; son Joseph Kennedy, and one
married daughter, the wife of Gen Biddle,
wealthy Californian. Kennedy was a
man of considerable property.
JOSEPH O. O. KENNEDY,
the victim of most brutal an unprovok-
ed assassination this evening, was for
many years one of the best known and
most highly respected citizens of Wash
ington. he was the superintendent of
the census of 1850 after DebOw's retire
ment, and superintendent of the census
of 1860. He was man of remarkable
/ eruditlon, eminent for his classical at
tainments, and a recognized authority on
all questions of our national history and
| industrial affairs. For a generation or
/ more he was an Intimate friend of nearly
! all our public men. Before the war ne
was an anti-slayery democrat, and friend
! OF Charles Sumner. When Brooks made
| his attack on Sumner Kennedy rushed in
and ipterfered in Mr., Summers behalf.
Scion Borland, ar ex-senator from Ar
kansas, encountered him, and knocked
/ him down with a blow that broke his nos e
aud marked Mr.. Kennedy for life. Mr.
Kennedy WAS intimate with President
Lincoln and President Garfield, and such
mon as William Pitt Fessenden and
Rsverdy johnson. The letters that he
has received make most valuable auto
graph collection. His office, in queer
| little old one-story brick building on FIT
teenth street just above Pennsylvania
avenue, was perfect museum, and at his
| home he had an exceptionally fine collec-
| ton of rare books. He was very liberal
man, and, with comfortable means but
not great wealth, he did great deal to
assist the people of gentle breeding who
had lost every thing ty the war, and who
were fortunate enough to be his friends.
1 His murderer ia drunken loafer whose
act was an outbreak of pure, unprovoked
dsvilishness.